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Spring Fling

Rosanne Fortier - News Correspondent

Spring Fling Dine and Dance saw 68 people enjoying a night out at Senior Citizens Sunshine Club of Vegreville, (SCSCV) on April 22.

This event featured a buffet supper catered by Sunshine Club Café of beef stroganoff, chicken cordon bleu, zucchini and mushrooms, assorted salads and desserts, beverages, coffee and tea.

People dancing to the music by Off Ramp Boys.

(Rosanne Fortier/Photo)

Irene Sabados admitted that the meal was delicious and she really liked the variety they offered. Vicky Paranych commented that the supper was very tasty.

After this, local renowned group Off Ramp Boys, (Randy Kereliuk, Rob Hughes, Ralph Lange and Gordon Forbes) performed many of their popular tunes. But the real show stopper was Kereliuk’s grandson, Luke Landry, who is just a toddler, was able to hold the audience’s attention with his dance moves.

People help themselves to the wonderful buffet supper.

(Rosanne Fortier/Photo)

SCSCV President Dwayne Hlady expressed that they presented this event to celebrate spring. “We had this to give people something to come out and do and it was a way to attract a different demographic of people to our center.”

Two Hills Hospital Auxiliary Makes Donations

Two Hills Health Centre - Submitted

The Two Hills Hospital Auxiliary has supported the Two Hills Health Centre for 55 years. The Hospital Auxiliary was created in 1968 and they have been an integral part of the Community and The Two Hills Health Centre, donating their time, gifts, and equipment over the years.

In the past 6 months the Two Hills Hospital Auxiliary has donated privacy screens for our Emergency Department which provide privacy for patients and staff while they receive treatment, an Art Cart with supplies which volunteers will take to patients during their stay and a reclining lift chair for our palliative care suite.

Two Hills Hospital Auxiliary members with staff and patient.

(Two Hills Health Centre/Submitted Photo)

The Two Hills Hospital Auxiliary also volunteers their time visiting patients and residents and assisting in feeding residents during mealtimes.

They provided gifts to the residents of our Long-Term Care for Ukrainian Christmas, which the residents were very thankful for.

The Two Hills Health Centre would like to express their gratitude towards The Hospital Auxiliary for its many years of service and support.

Their generosity means everything to us and to the community we serve.

Ukrainian Concert

Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent

Vegreville Seventh Day Adventist Church (VSDAC) played host to a Ukrainian Concert performed by Ukrainian Singers on April 23.

Around 100 people attended the concert which had all the songs performed in the Ukrainian language.

Ukrainian Singers who are newcomers to Canada from Ukraine were performing for the first time together. They came from Edmonton, Red Deer and Lacombe.

David Davyid and Liliia Boicheniuk emceed this event where they announced that their goal was that their music would touch the people’s heart. “Home is about the people in it. As long as, loved ones are

beside you, it doesn’t matter where your physical home is. Thank you to everyone who invited us to Canada so we can feel comfortable in our new home and can feel free to express ourselves in our own Ukrainian language. We are performing because we wanted to bring Ukraine closer to you.”

Ukrainian Singers.

(Rosanne Fortier/Photos)

VSDAC Pastor of Jeremy Wellman said they wanted to express their gratitude to the Ukrainian Singers for blessing them with such beautiful music. “We wanted to reach out and welcome Ukrainians who came to Vegreville from Ukraine to flee the war and put on something that might remind them of home by their own people and for their own people but also for the general community because a lot of people emigrated from Ukraine a while ago who live in Vegreville.

We hope those who came to the concert are encouraged and inspired to continue to help the newcomers from Ukraine in whatever ways they can.”

Attendee Bernice Bilyk mentioned that she thought the concert was wonderful. “I could understand some of the words from the Ukrainian songs. Also, there was so much meaning in it because I have family who fled Ukraine and are staying with cousins in the Ardrossan area.”